ktvu alison burns is in our washington, d.c. newsroom to tell us how this could shake up the race with four days until election day. alison. >> reporter: dave, it's a neck and neck contest between president obama and mitt romney so any big change in the job situation could certainly influence the coveted undecided voters. economists are forecasting 125,000 jobs were add the last month and the unemployment rate picked up to 7.9% because more people were looking for work. president obama who campaigns in ohio today is using his financial stump speech say the economy son the right track and he needs four more years to keep the momentum going. >> right now we could be putting more folks back to work right now. fixing roads and bridges. expanding broad band to rural neighborhoods. making sure our schools are state of the art. let's put americans back to work doing the work that needs to be done. >> reporter: but mitt romney is trying to make the closing argument that is the recovery could be much better with him in the white house an